Musk Buying More Companies

Elon Musk said he was “buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in” as he joked about what he plans to do next following his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.

In a late Wednesday gab session with his 87 million Twitter followers, Musk then re-posted a meme suggesting that he should buy McDonald’s in order to fix the restaurant chain’s chronically broken ice cream machines.

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McDonald’s in order to fix the restaurant chain’s chronically broken ice cream machines.

Those poor machines are so over depended upon by fat Americans.

You would think people would learn and leave those machines alone.

McDonald’s may be in league with the government. Obese people cost less for social security and Medicare,cuz they die younger on average. :frowning:

Obese people cost less for social security and Medicare,cuz they die younger on average. :frowning:

While they do indeed die younger, the cost of their care, especially end of life care, is substantially larger.

Off all the ailments that plague the obese, take just diabetes:

https://www.diabetes.org/about-us/statistics/cost-diabetes

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) released new research on March 22, 2018 estimating the total costs of diagnosed diabetes have risen to $327 billion in 2017 from $245 billion in 2012, when the cost was last examined.

People with diagnosed diabetes incur average medical expenditures of $16,752 per year, of which about $9,601 is attributed to diabetes.

Most of the cost for diabetes care in the U.S., 67.3%, is provided by government insurance (including Medicare, Medicaid, and the military).

For cheaper for the government to pay a couple extra years worth of social security than to pay for a years of diabetic care.

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People with diagnosed diabetes incur average medical expenditures of $16,752 per year, of which about $9,601 is attributed to diabetes.

For cheaper for the government to pay a couple extra years worth of social security than to pay for a years of diabetic care.

A single year of the average Social Security recipient’s check ($1657/mo) and the apparent $7,150 base non-diabetic medical cost would pay more than 2.8 years of the diabetic’s additional cost.

A single year

People are not diabetic for a single year.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25147254/#:~:text=Results%3A….

The discounted excess lifetime medical spending for people with diabetes was $124,600 ($211,400 if not discounted), $91,200 ($135,600), $53,800 ($70,200), and $35,900 ($43,900) when diagnosed with diabetes at ages 40, 50, 60, and 65 years, respectively.


The delta* you need to break even, just for diabetes, is 26 months if we focus on just the 65 cohort. Adding in other medical expenses and that number only goes up. Of course, that is only looking at Medicare and not Medicaid…

https://journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcare/fulltext/2017/07000….

For poverty-based Medicaid enrollees, estimated annual diabetes-related total medical expenditure was $9046 per person [$3681 (no diabetes) vs. $12,727 (diabetes); P<0001], of which 41.7%, 34.0%, and 24.3% were accounted for by prescription drugs, outpatient, and inpatient care, respectively.


Those individuals are not coming anywhere close to paying enough into Social Security to offset even their just their annual diabetes expenses.

*SS has the average benefit for March 2022 as $1537, not $1657 - but used your amount anyway.